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New polished Ziepod version 0.98 is available for download. This update includes many new features including capability of playing audio files from your computer and web pages by just drag-and-dropping files or links. Coming with this release, customization of global settings and settings for each individual podcast makes Ziepod even more powerful.

BottomFeeder 4.1 has been released featuring numerous bug fixes.

BottomFeeder is an RSS Feed and OCS FeedList reader/viewer. The viewer is implemented in Smalltalk, and is cross platform - supporting Windows, Macintosh, intel Linux, and most Unix implementations (AIX, SGI, Alpha Unix, Solaris, HPUX 10 and HPUX 11)

Online News Screensaver is a unique and informative screensaver tool that delivers the latest news and weather forecast right to the screen of your computer. If you have a direct Internet access, this RSS screensaver will keep bringing you the news reports continuously.

These are the main features:

• Hot news from top internet sites in real-time (predefined feeds only!);
• Photos in news annotation;
• Real-time stock quotes;
• Weather information with a five day forecast updated twice per day;
• RSS, RDF, ATOM and free-formatted text (RegExp) supported as a news sources;
• Picture slide show on the background;
• Different visual effects, such as flowing and fadeout;
• Full customization, you decide what kind of information you want to receive;
• English, German, Italian and Russian user interface.

RssFeedEater 1.3 has been released. The most obvious improvement is an AdBlock feature to improve readability of sites overcrowded with advertisements, but there are many hidden new features and bug fixes.

Version 1.2 is a major new update to NewsMac Pro. It includes lots of exciting new features, some of which are listed below.

• Tabbed browsing, searching and channel viewing.
• Improved web browser with built-in Google search.
• Options to automatically open/play certain download/enclosure types.
• Feed groupings in imported OPML files respected.
• New channel directory for adding channels from the built-in selection to your library.
• New demo restrictions - the 30 day limit is gone, but until you register you can’t add more than 10 channels or folders.

RSS DJ is a new style of RSS aggregator that can take any RSS feed and automatically convert it to spoken word MP3.

The Nightcrawler release of RSS Bandit is now done and available for all. Besides the new features there are a number of performance improvements especially with regards to the responsiveness of the application.

New Features:

• NNTP Newsgroups support
• Item Manipulation from Newspaper View
• Subscription Wizard
• Synchronization with Newsgator Online
• Using back and forward arrows to view last post seen in reading pane
• Atom 1.0 support
• Threaded Posts Now Optional
• Launching Browsers in the Background
• UI Improvements

Tags: RSS Bandit

PodPlus allows you to realize the full potential of your iPod. With PodPlus, you’ll be able to transform your iPod into much more than a simple music player. You’ll have the ability to turn your iPod into an information repository. You’ll be able to transfer all kinds of data to your iPod, including contacts, appointments, email, notes, tasks, podcasts, RSS news feeds, weather forecasts, daily horoscopes, movie showtimes and more!

iFeedPod is a small and simple utility for downloading RSS feeds to your iPod.

LiteFeeds has recently lanched some service upgrades. It now supports any https feed (a particularly useful secure feed is your Gmail feed) and has improved it’s mobile software.